The Knight Family

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Tour de Midwest: 2013 Greenville

Greenville

Our Tour De Midwest started out at the Knight's this year. The kids played hard and way too much fun! They were very active and keep Grandma and Grandpa on their toes. Here are the highlights:

Noon Ball Team
Grandpa is waiting for his four new noon ballers to grow up so they can join him.

Fishing

Uncle Tony and Grandpa took the boys fishing and they caught a few fish that they fried up for dinner.

Nick's Shaved Ice

We went just about every night for shaved ice.

Water Play
Grandpa got soaked by the boys and Angela. He was a good sport.

Great Grandparents
Grandma Aten and Grandpa and Grandma Knight came to visit.

Scooter Rides

Grandpa took each of the kids on a scooter ride every day.

Pirates and Treasure Hunts

Cool Cali-Sota Cousins (thanks for the name Aunt Christy!)

Swing

Soccer

Roasting Hotdogs over the bonfire
It was 90 degrees and the kids wanted to make a bonfire, so Grandpa made made a fire.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for making our time fun and special!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Random moments of summer

Angela's first year of swimming lessons

Ready for swimming lessons

Last day of preschool

Burn Notice TV Premier

Summer School is cool

We decide to forgo traditional summer school and do some fun activities at home.

Angela and Kera playing sprockets

Waiting for daddy to come home from work

Angela learning to do the swing

Pirate activities...hunting for treasure by melting ice (science), sword fighting (Gross motor), sorting shells (Math), etc.

Making treasure maps and following them, eating Pirate puffs, and more treasure hunting (counting).

Water unit...using fine motor skills to glue Cherrios to the letter "W" and the word "Water". We then did lots of water experiments to learn new vocabulary, like separate, dissolve, mix, predict, etc.

Family Camp: Big Bear

This weekend we went to Big Bear with San Marino Community Church for their family camp. Tyler goes to preschool at the church there, so we decided to check it out. It was at the Salvation Army camp near Big Bear Lake. We stayed in a cabin that was more like a hotel for two nights. The kids enjoyed the great outdoors, swimming, ziplining, a campfire, kids camp, and playing freely with lots of kids.

Ty did his first Zipline

Front row for the worship service.

True gentleman

Not happy about leaving camp!

First time doing archery

Father's Day at Family Camp

Angela's new little buddy...Emily.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Hail Hail to Michigan!

A few weeks ago I took the kids to Michigan to visit family and to let Daddy work hard and play hard. We also went to see our good friend, Elizabeth Waters, graduate from our alma mater, Spring Arbor University.

It was an uplifting trip to see everyone. It was food for my soul! The kids traveled well and enjoyed every minute! Tyler continues to talk about the diggers on the way to visit grandma's school. Angela continues to talk about going in the hot tub with Grandma and Grandpa. I will never forget seeing Great Grandpa Jackson trying to stand on the back of a moving golf cart and watch his life flash before my eyes as I grab him and pull him back down in his seat. I got to spend my birthday with my sister for the first time in over 6 years and Mother's day with my own mom for the first time in years also. That was special. Looking forward to going back in a few weeks!